Shershow, Scott Cutler,  1953- <br/><br/>
Deconstructing dignity :  a critique of the right-to-die debate / 
Scott Cutler Shershow. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface: the sacred part --  Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction --  Dignity and sanctity --  Dignity and sovereignty --  Human dignity from Cicero to Kant --  The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate --  Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant --  Sacrifice and the right to die --  A debate deconstructed. 
<br/><br/> The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate. Shershow examines texts from Cicero's De Officiis to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals to court. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226088266 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Right to die.<br/>Dignity.<br/>Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R726  / .D436 2014